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Windfall.
We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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Missed You.
My junkie girlfriend sold her body to feed her habit. ‘I’m no doing any harm,’ she said. ‘I sold myself tae you. Look how that fucking worked oot?’ I...
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Tilly cut loose from the day
Tilly cut loose from the day Brightness like a red balloon Utterances dumbstruck with gravity Details don’t matter Holding onto her giggling A...
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Uncle John's Popemobile.
Black specks were moving on the stacked plates of uneaten leftovers and the casual smears of a man that had tried to tidy up. Casualties lay on the...
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Sweaty
Sweaty was jumpy. He reached for a wrench. Rubbed grit from the window and squinted his one good eye to look through plastic into the yard. Neither...
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aye and aye, sadly true.
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
aye and aye, sadly true. where are we noo?
Read full commentPosted in The Big Picture
the poet in you, indeed,
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
the poet in you, indeed, Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Happiness Of Anticipating Inspiration
to be out and about is poetry
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
to be out and about is poetry to bring home.
Read full commentPosted in "Winter Constitutional"
Radost to the water boards.
Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025
Radost to the water boards. Radost to the moron's moron, Farage and Le Pan all whose incomes have received a signficant boots from our Russian friends. Radocst to the Tory Scum Party. I was going to say something about snakes. I think you've...
Read full commentPosted in Nor Any Drop to Drink
I think the wee guy in flip
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
I think the wee guy in flip flops played for the Peru team that beat us 2-0 in the 1970 world cup. the stars there were in alignment with the pub. I don't want to diminish your great achievement, but we really should have beaten them.
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we used to call kids that
Posted on Wed, 26 Nov 2025
we used to call kids that were good at maths 'brainy' at school. There was always a kid called 'Brains' in telly programmes, such as the Double Deckers. I've never really bothered having a brain. It's too much work.
Read full commentPosted in AWOL
I'm ahead with nuclear wars
Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025
I'm ahead with nuclear wars (planned) and introverts, extraverts and perverts on the moron's moron, Trump scale, but I've never heard of otrovert?
I thought you'd just made it up. But it's true. I don't know how it applies to me as I...
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we'd two sinks when we moved
Posted on Thu, 20 Nov 2025
we'd two sinks when we moved into our council house, a gerry-built tin box, but gerry didn 't build it. the wee sink was for dishes and stuff. The bigger sink for the mangle. A pulley above our head for drying clothes when you couldn't put them...
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a small word stress. It lies
Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2025
a small word stress. It lies flat on the page. ‘swallowing the sun as a dwarf star’. Well, wonderful words.
Read full commentPosted in Curiosity is the Only Requirement
Hair today, gone tomorrow.
Posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2025
Hair today, gone tomorrow. Well, in my case that's true. Your memories hold true.
Read full commentPosted in Drama Of Pheromones
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